374 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, 



The Council have resolved to make a donation of 100?. to the 

 Tllariuo Biological Association of tho United Kingdom, believing 

 that in so doing they will he promoting the advancement of a branch 

 of science in which tho Society is largely interested, but which has 

 been unfortunately too much neglected in this country. 



This sum will be paid out of the invested funds (as was done in 

 the case of the 100/. voted to Mr. Reeves), and the Council do not 

 propose to replace it from income, the investments still being con- 

 siderably in excess of the compositions received from compounding 

 Fellows. 



The Coimcil have also voted 61. 5s. to the Memorial now being 

 raised in America to the late R. B. Tolles, one of the earliest to 

 appreciate not merely the theoretical but the practical bearing of the 

 immersion system, in allowing of the increase of the aperture of an 

 objective beyond that of a dry objective of 180°, which it was so long 

 sujiposed to be impossible to exceed. 



The revised scale of subscription for Foreign Fellows comes into 

 force at the commencement of 1885, but as some misapprehension 

 seems to exist on the subject, it may be pointed out that it only 

 applies to elections subseqiieut to the last December meeting, tho 

 Society having no power to increase the subscriptions of Foreign 

 Fellows already elected, though it is of course open to any to adopt 

 the revised scale voluntarily. A payment of 11. lis. Gd. per annum 

 will still entitle a Foreign Fellow within the Postal Union to receive 

 the publications of the Society post free, representing an equivalent 

 of 32*'. 



Library and Cabinet. — The Council anticipate being able to 

 arrange for the circulation of the books at the commencement of the 

 next session. 



The Cabinet of Objects is being thoroughly examined by a com- 

 mittee, consisting of Dr. J. Anthony, Mr. G. F. Dowdeswell, Mr. J. W. 

 Groves, Mr. A. D. Michael, Prof. C. Stewart, and Mr. W. T. Suffolk, 

 who were ajipointed under the following resolution proposed by Dr. 

 Anthony and accepted by the Council : — 



" That a Museum Committee be constituted consisting of six 

 " members to examine and report to the Meeting of Council in 

 " October next, on the condition of the preparations in the possession 

 " of the Society, and as to the best mode of classifying and arranging 

 " and making accessible to the Fellows all or such of the preparations 

 " as may be worth keeping. And with a view to the future interest 

 " and importance of the Cabinet to consider the following proposal : — 

 " That while presentations of special slides by the Fellows in 

 " illustration of papers, or gifts of choice collections of objects would 

 " always be acceptable, preparers of, or dealers in microscopic objects 

 " should be invited to forward from time to time to the care of the 

 " Librarian, preparations of interest, which can be examined by the 

 " Fellows under proper regulations, it being understood that purchases 

 " would be made therefrom (and from other home and foreign sources) 

 " of such objects as might seem desirable." 



The Committee have not yet been able to complete their report, 



